Emory announces this morning that the creator of the “microloan” Muhammad Yunus, will speak at the University next month.  The lecture is currently “sold-out”, but apparently you can still get on a waiting list.

Muhammad Yunus, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work to reduce poverty through microloans, will present the 2010 Goodrich C. White Lecture on Wednesday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Glenn Memorial Auditorium.

The lecture, titled “The University and Creating a World Without Poverty,” is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. 
 
Currently, the event is sold-out, but names may be added to a waiting list.

Renowned as “banker to the poor,” Yunus was an economics professor in his native Bangladesh when he began making small personal loans to destitute basket weavers more than 30 years ago. From this humble beginning, he developed Grameen Bank into the advance guard of a world movement to eradicate poverty through microlending.

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